Caochangdi Workstation Movies
A collection of movies produced by Caochangdi Workstation where we put together films that have two or even more than three parts, this could almost be called a series, but since it is an all night film and each film has a complete story, it is definitely not a series. When a film hits theaters, they usually don't know exactly what kind of story it will receive. Viewer opinions are often unpredictable, but they have tremendous power. Some stories are designed to continue, while others get new chapters as people respond positively. With a successful film, we can almost guarantee that we will get more scenes to please the audience. On the other hand, a lot of new things hit theaters in a year. How do you know a newer part of one of your favorites is available? This collection was created by including films produced by Caochangdi Workstation. All the important movies here, whether it's two or twenty, if you liked the first part of a story, it's time to check out the newest one too!
Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (2023)
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As coronavirus begins to sweep the globe, Zhang returns to her father’s village with her camera, seeking to understand where the extraordinary...
Watch movieInvestigating My Father (2016)
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My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949. For survival, he tried to...
Watch movieSelf-Portrait with Three Women (2010)
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The 23-year-old director, fresh out of university, lives at home with her mother and grandmother. She rebels against them but also tries to...
Watch movieThe Monument (2021)
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Edited together from materials taken from Caochangdi performances and activities between 2012-2013 and Wu Wenguang's own body camera record, this...
Watch movieSelf-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM (2014)
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The fifth title in Zhang Mengqi's Self-Portrait film series.
Watch movieMy Village 2008 (2009)
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Now in her seventies, Shao Yuzhen has been making first-person documentaries about her home village of Shaziying (Beijing) since her selection for...
Watch movieSatiated Village (2011)
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It is the director's second documentary of "my village" series since she got involved with the "Folk Memory Project". She returned to her hometown to...
Watch movieSelf-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM (2021)
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The newest instalment in a series set in a small village in a mountainous region in China. In the winter marking ten years since the director began...
Watch movieSelf-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM (2013)
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After Self-Portrait: At 47 Km, Zhang Mengqi pursues her contributions to the Folk Memory Project, relentlessly questioning the survivors of the...
Watch movieSelf Portrait: Birth in 47 KM (2016)
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Between 1959 and 1961, more than 35 million people starved to death because of Mao’s Great Leap Forward policies. To avoid censorship in China,...
Watch movieMy Grandpa's Winter (2010)
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A documentary film following the daily life of director's grandfather in the winter of 2011. At 80 years old with five sons, the grandfather insists...
Watch movieAutobiography: Pass Through (2017)
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The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.
Watch movieLuo Village: I and Ren Dingqi (2011)
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Luo Bing went back to Luo village, where he was born and grew up, and interviewed older people to know what happened during famine from 1959-1961....
Watch movieHuamulin 2012 (2012)
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A documentary following the filmmaker, Li Xinmin, who went back to her hometown and interviewed the elders in her village who lived through the Great...
Watch movieThe Starving Village (2010)
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This is my second documentary film, and it is fully composed of old people. One woman, nearing 80, is living out the last two years of her life. From...
Watch movieSelf-Portrait: Window in 47KM (2019)
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The village in the mountains of China that the director has long made the subject of her camera. The traces of memories and landscapes that fade away...
Watch movieAutobiography: Evidence (1969)
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The third part in Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.
Watch movieLuo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky (2012)
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During Luo Bing's second return to his village, Ren Dingqi finally accepts to showhim his memoirs.
Watch movieBack to Huamulin (2011)
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Li Xinmin's first return to her village in Yunnan province. Alongside interviews with some village elders, the film reveals the filmmaker's family...
Watch movieChildren's Village (2012)
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Zou Xueping continues to interview old people in her village, this time with the help of local children. They start collecting names and money to...
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